"David Butcher" is a black and white photographer who uses traditional film and darkroom techniques to produce his photographs.

A chemist by profession, Butcher trained as a scientist with Unilever Research before leaving to do a PhD. He then worked for Ilford Imaging for 21 years as Research Scientist, Technical Manager for Chemicals and Chemical Regulatory Affairs manager, his expertise for which was recognised by the award of Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. During this time he also conducted research into, and registered several patents on, the making and processing of holograms. He also edited their in-house technical magazine and ran the photographic printing department.

He became a full-time photographer in 2005 and one of the seven Ilford Photo/Ilford Master Printers in 2006.

He lives and works from his studio in the Derbyshire Peak District of the United Kingdom where he produces his hand-made original prints using only traditional darkroom techniques and equipment.

More Dave Butcher on Wikipedia.

I hope we might be able to make some noise in the postseason. We've played with everybody outside Lexington (Ky.) Catholic, and our schedule has been tough.

The 3-point shooting didn't surprise us. We knew that was their strength last year and this year. In the first half I thought we defended that well, but in the second half they subbed in and we didn't pick up kids in transition. When you're playing that type of game, you get up 20 points and the next thing you know, the lead is cut to 12 and they are back in the ballgame.

We felt going in that their strength was their experience and that they are defensively sound. They have nice size inside and quickness at the guards. We knew that would be an issue; we knew we had to execute.

Our whole team's different so I'm just glad we've gotten this far. It's been an interesting year. At one time, I think, we were 7-4, and now we're sitting here at 18-5 so we've been playing some pretty good basketball the last two months.

We played with composure and we controlled the clock. It was real basketball and it's taken us a long time to get here.

It's special because very few times that I've been coaching have we been what I would say the underdog. If you told me after watching us play in November that we'd be here in March, I'd say no way.

Being here is the icing on the cake. Right now we're trying to put the cherry on top.

We actually made good decisions with the ball. We don't do that all the time. It's been an interesting year as far as some of our decision-making at the end of basketball games. I thought we did some real good things and had a lot of composure. That's been a tough one for us.

There's been a half-dozen possessions and we can be sitting here 14-1. But when we've been in close games we do not make good decisions. Game in and game out, when we handle the basketball and if we can keep our turnovers somewhere between 15 or 16 instead of 22 or 23, we can play with anybody.